The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 41
When did it ever happen that a king’s daughter married a pig?’
Who acts: it, daughter · What happens: happen, marry · To what, where: pig
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, daughter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 happen | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 happen | nsubj |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 happen | advmod |
| 5 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 married | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 married | nsubj |
| 11 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pig | det |
| 13 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 married | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 happen | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past · do-support | it | ever | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | marry | past | a king's daughter | a pig | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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